DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

@arteteco Prettty neat. Wish I knew more about mycology to help you out there.

@SecondJon @hashtaggrammar I would argue that the nature of the crimes, and the individuals involved are vastly different.

Being a serial rapist and a violent sexual predator is a very different sort of crime than an unintended killing of another human being.

I do not pretend to know exactly what happened with Mr. Kennedy, but I do not believe there was actual malice in his actions.

Where as the premeditated rapes of young women, using a position of power and *drugs* to facilitate that rape has nothing but malice in it.

These are two different beasts. It's an apple to oranges comparison.

@SecondJon @hashtaggrammar Chappaquiddick changed Ted Kennedy's life. While he was able to move forward in it, despite a crime being committed, he was never able to realize presidential ambitions.

It would be unfair to say it didn't affect his public image.

@hashtaggrammar @SecondJon

Bill Cosby created that character, he wrote him into being. Cliff Huxtable is a mask worn by Mr. Cosby, one he hid behind for a very long time.

I find it difficult to divorce Bill Cosby from Cliff Huxtable, and feel that the show is tarnished because of the reality of who Bill Cosby is and what he was doing 'behind the scenes' during those years.

People saw that character and thought Bill Cosby was like that person. Then he did terrible things to them. Life changing, ruining things.

And he did it repeatedly.

In this case, I really can't divorce the two. Not when one was used as a hunting blind for the other.

So, I gotta admit, I'm experiencing some cognitive dissonance over the whole Bill Cosby thing.

I believe justice was served, of course, but part of my brain has trouble divorcing Bill Cosby from his character on The Cosby Show.

I remember growing up that he was a really important role model to young men- young black men, in particular- but everyone could be like Cosby. Everyone could be that kind of genteel and well spoken man.

Again, I'd like to say that I fully support the decisions, and there is no doubt in my mind that Bill Cosby is a violent sexual predator.

However, I'm still having brain pains from my previously held views versus the truth.

@Nyoei I'd start with Zero and One. 😋

@freemo I like their other channels, too.

@freemo That is a fantastic video and channel.

So, I just watched the Mr. Rogers documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor."

I recommend it. It is truly fantastic. As a kid who grew up with Mister Rogers in my neighborhood it was a nostalgia trip and quite informative. I've always had a great deal of respect for Fred Rogers- and it seems to have been well placed.

#ShareTheMusic

https://youtu.be/OFzXaFbxDcM

Gotta love that Mr. Rogers Remix.

#memes

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online Deep breaths. Deeeeep breaths. It'll be alright. You got this.

It's time to play everyone's favorite game: Who wants to be a millionaire and/or lobster!~

@freemo Reminds me of a poem/Parable by Kahlil Gibran.:

Upon a day Beauty and Ugliness met on the shore of a sea. And they said to one another, “Let us bathe in the sea.”

Then they disrobed and swam in the waters. And after a while Ugliness came back to shore and garmented himself with the garments of Beauty and walked away.

And Beauty too came out of the sea, and found not her raiment, and she was too shy to be naked, therefore she dressed herself with the raiment of Ugliness. And Beauty walked her way.

And to this very day men and women mistake the one for the other.

Yet some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty, and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And some there be who know the face of Ugliness, and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes.

- The Wanderer, by Kahlil Gibran

@Nyoei I know in my heart that giving him up was the right choice for him, and that it would have been selfish to keep him given how my life turned out the first several years I lived here.

But, that doesn't change the fact I'll miss him. He was a good dog, and he took care of my sister and her family.

My bus is locked in some kind up startup sequence.